by Andrey Kots
[RIA Novosti] A video about the massacre of civilians, filmed in Kupyansk, was circulated on social networks. The author is a notorious nationalist who served in Azov. The video was accompanied by the caption "Payback will be." Earlier in the Kharkiv region, they repeatedly announced the persecution of "collaborators." And here is the proof of the terror organized there.
"There will be no consequences"
On the terrible frames of the six-second video - a hole dug with shovels somewhere on the outskirts of Kupyansk. At the bottom - at least three bodies in civilian clothes, lightly sprinkled with earth. Unidentified people throw another corpse into the pit - a half-naked man, bound hand and foot with adhesive tape. It is impossible to see the participants in the massacre: no faces are shown.
This video was published by the ex-commander of the Azov regiment Maxim Zhorin. And signed: "Payback will be." When the post went viral on the Web, Zhorin changed the phrase, adding: "The video was taken from the phone of the occupiers." However, Telegram users, after analyzing the metadata, found out that the video was filmed on October 9th. By that time, there were no Russians in Kupyansk.
Western media ignored this publication. What happened in the Kharkiv region, the authorities of the United States and European countries did not condemn. Russian officials also promised to find those responsible for the massacre.
Buchenwald lover
The personality of the author of the publication is noteworthy. Maxim Zhorin joined Azov back in 2014. He rose to the rank of regimental commander. He does not hide Nazi beliefs and even got a tattoo on his leg with the phrase "To each his own" - the motto of the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Baptism of fire took place in Mariupol in the summer of 2014. Then there were Marinka, Ilovaisk, Shirokinskaya offensive operation. According to the LPR and DPR intelligence, he is involved in many war crimes. So, in the republics, he is accused of shelling a demonstration on May 9, 2017 in the village of Bezymennoye.
Now the Azov citizen holds the position of chief of the central headquarters of the National Corps party. Active in social networks. For example, in June he published photographs of six murdered and mutilated opposition Ukrainian politicians, accompanying the post with the comment: “This is what Patriots for Life (the Opposition Platform – For Life party. — Ed.) now look like from Severodonetsk. On March 7 they disappeared , and now their new photos have appeared. They look so-so."
"Either Death or Prison"
"The fight against Russia's accomplices" is constantly discussed in the Ukrainian media. This is expressed not only by radicals, but also by politicians and officials.
“Collaborators – all these visiting Russian specialists, members of the government they appoint, teachers, kindergarten workers – should take into account that they are not nice uncles and aunts, they are criminals,” Aleksey Arestovich, an adviser to the head of the presidential office of Ukraine, said in September. there will be no sentiment towards them. Especially ours. A traitor is a traitor. The best thing you can do, I want to appeal to them, is to dump them in your beloved Russia. Because otherwise the weather is such that it is either death or jail."
Immediately after the start of the Ukrainian counter-offensive in the Kharkiv region, groups with the same name appeared on social networks:
"Traitors and collaborators of Volchansk", "Zradniki Izyum" and others. These channels published the personal data of residents of settlements who did not have time to evacuate and were considered "employees of the occupiers", including those who simply took humanitarian aid. Many were arrested by the SBU - people were detained right on the streets and taken away in an unknown direction.
So, in mid-September, a video in which Ukrainian special services interrogated a resident of Balakleya, the director of a local sports club, went around the social network. He assures that he only "served his native city", and not any authority. But the security officer commands his subordinates: "Pack it!" The fate of this man is unknown.
Off the beaten track
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the teachers of the Kharkiv region, who "betrayed" Ukraine, will no longer receive salaries. And Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk promised to judge them.
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In addition, Kyiv has repeatedly talked about the so-called filtration measures.
In Ukraine, since the spring, a law on collaborationism has been in force, which provides for criminal liability for cooperation with Russia. Punishment - up to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property. By August, according to the national police, over 1,200 cases had been opened under this article.
In addition, telegram channels and the media regularly publish "lists of traitors" by name. Apparently, in the coming weeks there will be even more of them - as well as videos of massacres.
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About the video that was published by the Ukrainian Nazi Zhorin. Footage of the massacre of civilians in Kupyansk, Kharkov region. Tortured corpses are thrown into the pit like garbage.
It is alleged that the video was allegedly found in the phone of the “occupier”. An absolutely opaque allusion to the involvement of the Russian military in this crime, and an eloquent signature: “Retribution will be!”.
Ukrainian fake pleats have achieved a viral effect and an emotional reaction of the audience to the post. Only with the facts, as always, pierced.
Firstly. Obviously, the footage is fresh. In the frame, yellowed trees, fallen leaves. The dead are warmly dressed, some wearing jackets and sweaters. At the same time, the Russian army began to retreat from the city in early September.
Secondly. The dead were obviously tortured, as evidenced by their hands tied behind their backs, a rope around their necks, and a bag over their heads. The handwriting of the Ukrainian special services, well known to us since 2014. It is these methods that Ukrainian punishers use to suppress dissent and punish supporters of the Russian world.
Thirdly. Immediately after the occupation of the city by Ukraine, information appeared in the media that the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were looking for residents who had collaborated with the Russian Federation and were taking them away in an unknown direction. It can be assumed that it is from the bodies of abducted citizens that Ukrainian punishers get rid of on a widespread video.
Obviously, we are dealing with another monstrous provocation by Ukraine. Similar scenarios have already been played out by Kyiv in Bucha, in the Mariupol drama theater and the Mariupol maternity hospital.
The goals are always the same - to intimidate the civilian population and dehumanize the image of the Russian soldier.
But in one "Azov" Zhorin is right - there will be retribution! It is near and inevitable. Among others, an objective investigation of the crimes of the Ukrainian military against the civilian population of Kupyansk will be carried out.